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The Soviet destruction in 9/1983 of 269 people aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was one of the most upsetting crises of the Cold War era. The USA & USSR immediately blamed one another for the disaster; but, as Hersh powerfully argues, responsibility went far beyond ordinary governmental decision making & into the murky sphere of superpower intelligence calculations & confusion. He asserts that the catastrophe followed more from Soviet ignorance than viciousness, & that the whole episode demonstrates how the superpowers are more interested in gaining political advantage than the truest understanding of events. Hersh cannot provide a final recounting of this complex crisis. But he does show how one critical thinker can provide a more believable reconstruction of events than can any self-interested governmental regime.-- Library Journal
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The Target Is Destroyed, Seymour Hersh
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1986
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- Titel
- The Target Is Destroyed
- Untertitel
- What Really Happened to Flight 007 and What America Knew About It
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Seymour Hersh
- Verlag
- Random House (NY)
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1986
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 282
- ISBN10
- 0394542614
- ISBN13
- 9780394542614
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Technologie & Industrie, Politik, Autos & Verkehr, Luftfahrt
- Beschreibung
- The Soviet destruction in 9/1983 of 269 people aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was one of the most upsetting crises of the Cold War era. The USA & USSR immediately blamed one another for the disaster; but, as Hersh powerfully argues, responsibility went far beyond ordinary governmental decision making & into the murky sphere of superpower intelligence calculations & confusion. He asserts that the catastrophe followed more from Soviet ignorance than viciousness, & that the whole episode demonstrates how the superpowers are more interested in gaining political advantage than the truest understanding of events. Hersh cannot provide a final recounting of this complex crisis. But he does show how one critical thinker can provide a more believable reconstruction of events than can any self-interested governmental regime.-- Library Journal